Apparently tiger sharks eat license plates and rubber tires. Anything you put in front of them according to Shark Week. Once one bit a woman in half in Hawaii, but it was her fault for swimming at dawn. They are predators, after all. She was an athletic swimmer, a Maui native. She knew…
The Little Things – Microwork
Writing in the Early Morning I write best at 3 a.m. when my mind has long gone and all that is left is my heart and your memory Joie Bauman is a young, emerging writer from Holmdel, New Jersey who is currently studying social work at a small community college. She coaches club track and…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 8.3! We are excited to bring you three great pieces this week from three exceptional women writers. We have a personal essay “Circus” by Glenna Turnbull, our first ever science fiction story “M.I.S.T.R.E.S.S.” by Ersa Henry, and a fabulous poem “Morphing in Place” by Judy Battle. We are still looking to fill…
Issue 8.3 – Nonfiction
Eleven days til Christmas and I feel like a tightrope walker, perched on the rope of duty, putting one foot in front of the other in an effort to make it through the season without falling. It would be so easy to just give up and drop. But I keep my toes wrapped tightly to…
Issue 8.3 – Fiction
M.I.S.T.R.E.S.S. PHYSICAL DATA LOG 9:30 a.m. December 18th, 2247 Reboot. Reboot. My systems race trying to unscramble the received signals. This has never happened before. I am mathematically perfect; there is no room for error within my code. I am adaptable to any situation presented to me. Static buzzes behind my eyes and I lose…
Issue 8.3 – Poetry
Self-will doesn’t run riot it crawls on naked belly ignores primal ooze never bathes and is always convinced that love is only a fix away. I crawl amid constant cravings lose desire to feel real accept death in chemical form still a part of me snubs Thanatos still a part of me…
Book Review – The Woman in the Moon
Marjorie Saiser. The Woman in the Moon. Backwaters Press, 2018. By Nina Murray. Marjorie Saiser’s newest collection traverses elemental paths of longing, guilt, connection, and reckoning, to arrive, with a piercing honesty at the renewed discipline of being human. The title evokes both a reclamation of a symbolic reference point and a peculiar placement of…
The Little Things – Microwork
Girl Pants The quickest way to get me to say “the patriarchy is bullshit” is to make me aware of the depth of men’s pockets. Rheanna Haaland (she/her/they/them) is the 3rd place winner of the 2018 Erotica Grand SlaMN Championship for spoken word poetry. Their work has appeared most recently in “Auk Contraire”…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 8.2! I hope you all had a chance to read the winning poem from our Poetry Contest: “To The Woman Crying in the Airport Lounge” by Kim Dhillon. We published it along with an interview with Kim that you don’t want to miss. You can find it here! We are planning another…
Issue 8.2 – Nonfiction
Inside the warm car we sit and wait, parked in front of my son’s elementary school, for the first bell to ring. Lily, my beautiful daughter, speaks from her seat in the back, describing her class science project, how they will try to design and build a house that the teacher can’t blow down with…
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